Internally, I've had a number of people ask me "What's in Windows 7 for Developers?" or "What will developers get out of Windows 7?" and so I thought I'd put together a short post with some links around places to go for information on Windows 7 and what to expect when Windows 7 ships.

The first point I'd make is one that's very important to me. Developers are users too. In fact, they're "power-users".

And then some.

They're running the standard apps that most users run but, beyond that, they're also running ( at a bare minimum ) a bunch of development tools and some of those might be RTM or preview along with perhaps a whole bunch of SDKs ( RTM/preview ) that they've grabbed off the web which may/may not be compatible with the latest version of the operating system and then they're switching between apps like;

and so the first thing that you need when you're a developer is a nice, stable, performant operating system. Anything else is like building "sand on sand" or starting to build an extension to a house that's not finished.